The fourth graders set off down Lake Street toward City Park in a horse-drawn carriage. Baker Elementary is the only Fort Morgan school to reward its top fundraisers with a carriage ride. (Paul Albani-Burgio / Fort Morgan Times)

Some of Fort Morgan's top budding young salespersons got to see Fort Morgan from a new perspective Tuesday afternoon when they took to the city's streets for a horse-drawn carriage ride. The two Baker Elementary School students from each home room who made the highest sales in the school's yearly fundraiser were treated to a ride to Fort Morgan City Park, where they enjoyed a picnic before heading back to Baker.

Baker Principal Daniel Cooper said the school's Parent Teacher Organization decided to reward the top students with a carriage ride because it wanted to provide a "unique" reward to encourage selling. The school succeeded in doing so as Cooper said Baker is the only Fort Morgan to offer such a carriage ride to its students.

"With Baker being in its second year we thought here is a great opportunity to try to come up with something really cool and really special," he said. "At our PTO meeting we kind of decided lets try a carriage ride. So far its been a huge success--the kids love it.

Cooper said this year's fundraiser, in which students had the opportunity to sell a variety of gift items and accessories in order to raise money for student field trips, was quite successful.

"We actually had some pretty amazing top sellers," he said. "There were between six and eight big boxes of stuff when it got delivered and dollies had to be used to carry all that stuff in."

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